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The Rhetoric of Economics

By Deirdre McCloskey

Book information

Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Year
1998
ISBN
0-299-15810-1, 0-299-15814-4
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4640931 bytes)
Edition
2
Pages
246\246
Topic
Economy
Time added
2019-01-06 10:43:51

Description

Contents ......Page 7 Preface to the Second Edition ......Page 11 Acknoledgments for the First Edition ......Page 15 Exordium ......Page 19 1 How to do a Rhetorical Analysis of Economics, and Why......Page 23 2 The Literary Character of Economic Science ......Page 40 3 Figures of Economic Speech ......Page 55 4 The Rhetoric of Scientism: How John Muth Persuades ......Page 72 5 The Problem of Audence in Historical Economics: Robert Fogel As Rhetor ......Page 94 6 The Lawyerly Rhetoric of Coase's "The Nature of the Firm"......Page 107 7 The Unexamined Rhetoric of Economic Quantification ......Page 120 8 The Rhetioric of Significance Tests......Page 132 9 The Poverty of Economic Modernism ......Page 159 10 From Methodoloy to Rhetoric ......Page 176 11 Anti-Rhetoric ......Page 188 12 Since Rhetoric: Prospects for a Scientific Economics......Page 207 Bibliography ......Page 214 Index ......Page 238

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